Informationen zum Autor Anne Krueger is a former editor-in-chief of A magazine and the author of A Guide to Your Baby's First Year . A freelance editor and writer for many national publications! she lives in Knoxville! Tennessee! with her husband and two daughters. Klappentext A complete guide to the most important year in your baby's life! With its timely! in-depth advice and hands-on guidance! Parenting magazine has emerged as the child-care resource of choice for aware! involved parents. Now the editors of Parenting bring you a comprehensive! up-to-the-minute guide to the all-important first year of your baby's life. With fully illustrated chapters organized in three-month increments from birth to first birthday! Parenting Guide to Your Baby's First Year provides the essentials on everything you need to know about: Your Baby's First Hours: How newborns look! act! and feel • Making the most of your hospital stay • Taking your newborn home The Adjustment to Parenthood: Dealing with postpartum blues • The challenging demands of a newborn • Older siblings Feeding Your Growing Child: The pros and cons of breast and bottle • Strategies for dealing with picky eaters • Avoiding mealtime power struggles Child Development: How your baby grows • Mastering motor skills • Baby's social and emotional life Health & Safety: First-year medical checkups • Baby-proofing your home • Common illnesses of infancy and early childhood Special Concerns: Preventing SIDS • Living with colic • Developmental delays Introduction When I was pregnant with my first daughter, I was lucky enough to know three other women at my office who were expecting around the same time. We picked out baby clothes together, shared fast-food cravings, and talked, talked, talked. We discussed baby names, the size of our bellies, our worries about labor, and our excitement about motherhood. After our babies (two girls, two boys) were born, the new mothers' club really took off. We exchanged dinners plus a great deal of advice and loving support. I received near-hysterical calls in the middle of the night and did my share of crying on friends' shoulders. What made us weep? Happiness, fatigue, worry well, who could understand better than another new mother that sometimes you don't have a clue why you're feeling the way you do? The emotions, challenges, and joys of the first year of life with baby aren't always easily explained. But they certainly are a lot more manageableeven funwhen you can share them with folks who are in the same boat. As a former editor in chief of Parenting magazine, I have been reminded again and again of this power of shared experiences. Parenting's readers have always turned to the magazine for the authoritative advice for which it is known, but they love the magazine for the honesty of the voices and experiences of real parents presented in its pages. It's that combination of expertise and accessibility that the editors of PARENTING and I had in mind when we conceived this Guide to Your Baby's First Year. We'd love it if you thought of this book as your own new mothers' club, a place where you can turn for practical, timely information, side by side with the experiences of many new mothers and new fathers, too; a club where you can find inspiration, reassurance, and answers to your questions; a club, in fact, with an index. To deliver answers to your questions as easily as possible, PARENTING Guide to Your Baby's First Year is organized chronologically. Information is served up when you really need itwhether you're in the throes of baby's first bout of colic or in the thrall of his first word. You don't have to slog through a whole year's worth of baby's social development, for instance, when all you really want to know about is that belly laugh you just heard bursting from your 4-month-old. After a chapter on new...

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Anne Krueger is a former editor-in-chief of A magazine and the author of A Guide to Your Baby’s First Year. A freelance editor and writer for many national publications, she lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, with her husband and two daughters.

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A complete guide to the most important year in your baby's life!

With its timely, in-depth advice and hands-on guidance, Parenting magazine has emerged as the child-care resource of choice for aware, involved parents. Now the editors of Parenting bring you a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute guide to the all-important first year of your baby's life. With fully illustrated chapters organized in three-month increments from birth to first birthday, Parenting Guide to Your Baby's First Year provides the essentials on everything you need to know about:

Your Baby's First Hours: How newborns look, act, and feel • Making the most of your hospital stay • Taking your newborn home
The Adjustment to Parenthood: Dealing with postpartum blues • The challenging demands of a newborn • Older siblings
Feeding Your Growing Child: The pros and cons of breast and bottle • Strategies for dealing with picky eaters • Avoiding mealtime power struggles
Child Development: How your baby grows • Mastering motor skills • Baby's social and emotional life
Health & Safety: First-year medical checkups • Baby-proofing your home • Common illnesses of infancy and early childhood
Special Concerns: Preventing SIDS • Living with colic • Developmental delays

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A complete guide to the most important year in your baby’s life!

With its timely, in-depth advice and hands-on guidance, Parenting magazine has emerged as the child-care resource of choice for aware, involved parents. Now the editors of Parenting bring you a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute guide to the all-important first year of your baby’s life. With fully illustrated chapters organized in three-month increments from birth to first birthday, Parenting Guide to Your Baby’s First Year provides the essentials on everything you need to know about:

Your Baby’s First Hours: How newborns look, act, and feel • Making the most of your hospital stay • Taking your newborn home
The Adjustment to Parenthood: Dealing with postpartum blues • The challenging demands of a newborn • Older siblings
Feeding Your Growing Child: The pros and cons of breast and bottle • Strategies for dealing with picky eaters • Avoiding mealtime power struggles
Child Development: How your baby grows • Mastering motor skills • Baby’s social and emotional life
Health & Safety: First-year medical checkups • Baby-proofing your home • Common illnesses of infancy and early childhood
Special Concerns: Preventing SIDS • Living with colic • Developmental delays

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When I was pregnant with my first daughter, I was lucky enough to know three other women at my office who were expecting around the same time. We picked out baby clothes together, shared fast-food cravings, and talked, talked, talked. We discussed baby names, the size of our bellies, our worries about labor, and our excitement about motherhood.
 
After our babies (two girls, two boys) were born, the new mothers’ club really took off. We exchanged dinners plus a great deal of advice and loving support. I received near-hysterical calls in the middle of the night and did my share of crying on friends’ shoulders. What made us weep? Happiness, fatigue, worry … well, who could understand better than another new mother that sometimes you don’t have a clue why you’re feeling the way you do? The emotions, challenges, and joys of the first year of life with baby aren’t always easily explained. But they certainly…